Category: Blog

It has been very quiet in this blog series. There’s only one reason: deployment was a more than fulltime occupation. Time for writing was never more scarce. Today the big rush is over and I can find some time to reflect on the past few weeks. Student preparation As I mentioned in the previous post,“A Learning Device for Every Student – Part V – Ready? Go!”

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Sint-Ursula School in Horn, Limburg, The Netherlands together with fellow Belgian and Dutch ADEs. This school has been awarded the title Apple Distinguished School recently and has a 4 year history of implementing iPad devices 1:1 to students. The story of learning at Sint-Ursula Not all students“(R)evolution in Limburg. Visiting a Distinguished School”

In this fourth part of this series, I’d like to talk about the technical side of the deployment. You will not need to ben a system engineer to read the following; I’ll try to keep it as comprehensible as possible. Planning is key When managing several hundred iPad devices, planning thoroughly is essential. I have“A Learning Device For Every Student – Part IV – Roll-out scenarios”

A few weeks ago, Apple announced the applicants who got selected to join the Apple Distinguished Educators program. As I was browsing the list, I noticed a familiar name. It was Ingvi Hrannar Ómarsson from Iceland. Seeing his name reminded me of an article he wrote in 2014 on how we organise school, classes and“Icelandic inspiration”

Yesterday I wrote about Why every teacher should blog and almost instantly a friend who is also a teacher asked me about my blogging setup. So here goes: The blog The blog is part of my website. You’re visiting it now. A blog can be hosted on any blogging service like blogger.com, tumblr or even“My blog workflow”

These days digital portfolios are a hot topic. They give students the ability be authentic authors and document their learning journey. One of the simplest ways to build a digital portfolio is a blog. But don’t be mistaken: a blog can also be one of the most powerful tools a student can have to tell“Why Every Teacher Should Blog”

So we decided that 1:1 iPad was the way to go Read here how we made this decision. Next step was the most important step to take: plan. What do you need to think of before you welcome students with iPad in your class? A lot! Apple provides with a good framework to bring an“A Learning Device For Every Student – Part III – Getting everyone on board”

From vision to reality In my last post, I already focused heavily on why we think every student should have a personal learning device. Read more about it here. The very first step was figuring out how we would conduct the decision making of the project. Was this up to the school board of directors?“A Learning Device For Every Student – Part II, Scenarios”

We have done it like that for a long time At the moment we are having a discussion at school about productivity suites in our school. Until now we have taught our students the latest version of Microsoft Word on Windows. Without a doubt, MS Word is the mainstream word processor in education, at home“Has the word processor gone obsolete in education?”

You might know that I did a series on this blog about using iPad as your only computer. In order to make that a success, you need some power tools. Automator has always been such a work horse on macOS. The app (yes, it is on your Mac too!) allows you to create menu actions, small“Learn all about iPad automation from Brian Foutty”